Re: Gnus sometimes reports new messages but not showing them on IMAP server

Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Greg,
>
> Greg Troxel <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> This makes much sense.  I'll try M-g the next time this happens.  Thanks
>>> everyone!
>>
>> I had a situation where a message arrived in INBOX.  I could see it in
>> the filesystem dovecot reads, and in other clients.  It was as if it did
>> not exist in gnus.
>>
>> M-g on the group in *Group* buffer seems to have resolved that.
>> It is interesting that moving out and back resolved what I think is the
>> same situation in the past.
>>
>> Just making up stuff without basis:  It's like a missing wakeup in a
>> synchronization protocol.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like it doesn't fix it for me, presumably
> because I'm using nnimap instead of reading from a local mailbox.
> Therefore it feels natural to assume a bug in nnimap, though it's still
> years earlier before I can figure it out from the code, if that ever
> happens :P

This was nnimap in my case, with emacs and dovecot on the same machine
if that matters.